“Rising Water” features works by Richard Misrach, Willie Birch, and Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun from Louisiana, Trenton Doyle Hancock and Sarah Welch from Texas, Aspen Mays from South Carolina, and Frances Gallardo from Puerto Rico. Reflecting the lived experiences of persons of color, the economically disadvantaged, and the newly displaced in areas affect by Hurricanes Florence, Harvey, Katrina, Maria, and Michael, the exhibition showcases artistic responses centering creativity and empathy as tools for navigating an increasingly storm-impacted future.

There will be an evening reception on Thursday, January 16 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., and the exhibition will be on display through March 28, 2020.

An interactive exhibition of historic prints from MoFA’s Permanent Collection, swords on loan from FSU’s World War II Institute, and contemporary fencing equipment explores how bladed weapons have evolved from symbols of power to elements of sport.

There will be an evening reception on Thursday, January 16 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., and the exhibition will be on display through March 28, 2020.

Dr. Aaron Thomas will give a talk about The Bluest Water, a play about Hurricane Camille. In the summer of 2019, Dr. Thomas directed this play in a community in Virginia impacted by the storm.

In this special Friday event co-hosted by the Tallahassee Zine Fest, artist collective Queer Appalachia will discuss their work and lead a zine workshop.

Zora Neale Hurston’s most well renowned work is coming to MoFA and Foster-Tanner! Join Leah Delaney, an English instructor and doctoral student at Florida State University, in a two part book club and discussion on “Their Eyes Were Watching God” this Spring.

The first meeting will be held on February 22nd at the Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts and cover chapters 1 through 9. The second will occur two weeks after on March 7th at the Foster-Tanner Fine Arts Gallery to conclude the novel. Both meetings will span from 11 am to 12 pm. And both sessions are free and open to the public!

More about the book:
As the novel states “there are years that ask questions, and years that answer,” it follows a young girl named Janie through her youth in the small town of Eatonville, Florida, to the moment she finds herself and her independence in the midst of a hurricane on Lake Okeechobee. Janie enters the storm lost and searching, experiences great trauma during its onset, then emerges from the disaster stronger than ever, with a new sense of purpose and perspective on life.

Zora Neale Hurston’s most well renowned work is coming to MoFA and Foster-Tanner! Join Leah Delaney, an English instructor and doctoral student at Florida State University, in a two part book club and discussion on “Their Eyes Were Watching God” this Spring.

The first meeting will be held on February 22nd at the Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts and cover chapters 1 through 9. The second will occur two weeks after on March 7th at the Foster-Tanner Fine Arts Gallery to conclude the novel. Both meetings will span from 11 am to 12 pm. And both sessions are free and open to the public!

More about the book:
As the novel states “there are years that ask questions, and years that answer,” it follows a young girl named Janie through her youth in the small town of Eatonville, Florida, to the moment she finds herself and her independence in the midst of a hurricane on Lake Okeechobee. Janie enters the storm lost and searching, experiences great trauma during its onset, then emerges from the disaster stronger than ever, with a new sense of purpose and perspective on life.